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Isabella Valancy Crawford
Irish-born Canadian writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Isabella Valancy Crawford (25 December 1846 – 12 February 1887) was an Irish-born Canadian writer and poet. She was one of the first Canadians to make a living as a freelance writer.
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"Crawford is increasingly being viewed as Canada's first major poet."[1] She is the author of "Malcolm's Katie," a poem that has achieved "a central place in the canon of nineteenth-century Canadian poetry."[2]